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Two Anker Nebula projectors are on sale for all

Projectors are awesome. They turn any light-colored wall into a big-screen theater. But that kind of magical capability must cost a small fortune, right? Nope. Today only, and while supplies last, Anker is offering its lowest prices to date on a pair of its most popular projectors. Read more: The best home-theater projectors for 2019 …

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Buy four new Tile Mate trackers for $60, get a Google Home Mini free

Just yesterday, while visiting my parents, I had a lightbulb moment: My mom needs a Tile. That’s because she often can’t remember where in the house she left her phone. But her keys are always parked on the key hook. I’ll come back to that after this important message: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Best Buy is …

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Sphero RVR wants to be your future hackable robot kit

At first glance, Sphero’s newest robotic toy looks like an RC car. In a lot of ways, that’s what it is. Sphero’s co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, Adam Wilson, drives the tread-wheeled little tank-thing around with a phone app. It’s zippy, can spin and pivot, and has good traction. It also looks cute, but almost like something that came from …

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Buy the Fluance Ai40 wireless bookshelf speakers, get a free Google Home Mini

What’s better than one Bluetooth speaker? Two of them, of course, linked together for true stereo sound and robust enough to really fill your living room. That leaves out the majority of brick-style speakers, which tend to be small and single — fine for casual listening but not really audiophile-friendly. Which brings us to today’s deal. For a limited time, …

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High

Woo Audio has been making exceptional tube electronics in New York CIty since 2004. So it came as a big surprise when I received the company’s first solid-state WA11 Topaz headphone amplifier. Better yet, it’s small enough to be truly portable — Woo’s taking high-end sound to the streets! Even without the aid of tubes the WA11 ($1,400) sounds velvety-rich, …

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Apple may unveil video and news services March 25

Apple is expected to unveil its rumored video service and a news subscription service at an event March 25 at its Cupertino, California, campus, according to reports this week. But don’t expect to see revamped Airpods or a new iPad Mini, one report said. Apple didn’t respond to a message seeking comment about the video service details.  Both video and news …

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Apple may release AirPods 2 on March 29… or not

Apple’s update to its wireless earbuds, which are expected to be called the AirPods 2, is due for an update since its original launch in 2016. While the general consensus expects Apple to unveil them in September, a new rumor reports that they may come much sooner, on March 29. Now playing: Watch this: Apple AirPods could get wireless charging, …

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Wireless carriers prepare for Super Bowl 2019

Wireless carriers have spent millions of dollars and years for preparing for one day. Which makes sense when that single day is the 2019 Super Bowl.  The carriers have installed hundreds of new antennas and small cells (think mini cellular towers) in and around Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta to increase the capacity of the network for the more than 1 …

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New Apple iPads surface in EEC certification database

It looks like we’ll be able to take a longtime resident, Apple’s iPad Mini 4, off our endangered tech list for 2019; after three years and many rumors, new iPad model numbers have popped up in the EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) database, including one that may be for an iPad Mini 5. The report lends credence to the growing rumors of inexpensive …

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In China, you can now stalk blacklisted debtors on WeChat

China is taking its social credit system a step further by naming and shaming “deadbeat” debtors on one of the most popular apps in the country, WeChat. The Higher People’s Court of Hebei launched a new mini program on WeChat last week that lets users see if a debtor listed on the country’s credit blacklist is within 500 meters of …

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